Session 22 for Make-Up

In relation to public health, AOTA's Vision 2025 considers health to be the wellbeing of one's mental, physical, and social state in the population we serve.  Some key signs that you are healthy are having the ability and energy to perform the occupations that have meaning to you as well as when your mind isn't racing, resulting in stress.  Occupational therapy-directed health promotion is the client-centered use of occupations, adaptions, or alteration of context to maximize the pursuit of health and quality of life for people, groups, populations and communities.  There are primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions that aim to reduce threats to health that include prevention, reducing risk of a condition or injury, and limiting the impact of an ongoing illness.  OTs are set apart from other professions in health promotion by how they provide recommendations and training for caregivers, determine whether patients can live independently, addressing existing disability with adaptive equipment so patients can perform ADLs safely, perform home safety assessment before discharge, and assess cognition and the ability to physical manipulate things.  The last two concepts I would like to explain are the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim, or IHI, and Health People 2020.  The IHI was implemented to improve the patient experience of care and the health of promotions, reduce the per capita cost of health care, and broaden the role and impact of primary care and other community-based services to focus around being client-centered.  The Vision of Health People 2020 is a society in which all people live long, healthy lives.  A few of the missions for the Vision are to identify health improvement priorities,  increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress, and engage multiple sectors to take actions to strengthen policies and improve practices that are driven by the best available evidence and knowledge.

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  1. Dr. LancasterApril 3, 2018 at 7:14 PM

    Well stated, Mandy! OTs also center our evaluation and intervention around meaningful occupation and consider individuals in a holistic way. Through the Centennial Vision and Vision 2025, public health and welfare have become an important part of our profession's focus.

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